Ron Jeffries (born December 26, 1939) is one of the three founders of the
Extreme Programming
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(XP)
software development methodology
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circa 1996, along with
Kent Beck
Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process. Beck was one of the 17 ori ...
and
Ward Cunningham. He was from 1996, an XP coach on the
Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System
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project, which was where XP was invented. He is an author of ''Extreme Programming Installed'', the second book published about XP. He has also written ''Extreme Programming Adventures in C#''. He is one of the 17 original signatories of the
Agile Manifesto
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Extreme programming
American technology writers
American computer scientists
American computer programmers
Agile software development
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